Việt Nam News

The Ministry of Transport (MoT) had decided to stop collecting tolls from build-operation-transfer (BOT) roads that had quickly fallen into disrepair after opening, reported online newspaper vietnamplus.vn.

The adoption of minimum energy performance standards will achieve a minimum saving of around VNĐ10 trillion (US$480 million) and a reduction of 34 million tonnes of CO2 emissions by 2030, a workshop heard in HCM City yesterday.

Hà Hưng Pharmarcy Company’s factory of 4,000sq.m in Văn Lâm District, Hưng Yên Province was devastated in an inferno on Monday.

The People’s Committee of Hà Nội’s Sóc Sơn District has asked Minh Phú Commune People’s Committee to coordinate with relevant agencies in solving violations relating to illegal construction on forest land by the end of November.

The Việt Nam Food Administration (VFA) under the Ministry of Health has fined two dozen companies for violating food safety and hygiene regulations.

The National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting (NCHMF) said that a cold spell is forecast to hit northern Việt Nam starting on Wednesday.

After a short holiday, Vietnamese workers at a South Korean garment company in HCM City were dismayed as they couldn’t get back into work. When they returned after their vacation earlier this month, they were refused entry into their own factory by a group of strangers.

A lack of investment into inland waterways has stunted the development of water-borne shipping and made Việt Nam’s logistics sector heavily dependant on more expensive road transport.

With HCM City’s metro line No 1 from Bến Thành to Suối Tiên suffering from major cost overruns, and the National Assembly yet to sanction the additional funding, the city government has said it will try and provide the required funds to finish the work by 2020, the extended deadline.

Trần Minh Nguyệt, 22, a backpacker from HCM City, experienced her first trip to Hà Nội early this month.

A majority of employers will increase their recruitment demand in next year, according to the latest report of VietnamWorks, the online recruitment website operated by Navigos Group.

The central province of Thừa Thiên-Huế's People’s Committee has refused a proposal by a harbour investor to dump over 700,000 cu.m of mud into the sea.

For almost 30 years the Christina Noble Children's Foundation has been helping abandoned and disadvantaged youngsters across the country. Now they need your help.

Ministry of Public Security on Monday announced that the ministry’s Investigation Agency issued a decision to prosecute two officials of the environment sector in Bến Tre  Province for wrongdoing related to the case of illegal import of scraps into Việt Nam.

About three million young Vietnamese people are affected by mental and psychological problems, but only 20 percent of them receive medical treatment while the rest resort to alcohol, tobacco and drug use, said a doctor in Hồ Chí Minh City.

Police in the northern province of Hòa Bình have arrested the owner of an illegal gold mine that collapsed on Sunday leaving two people missing.

An illegal gold mine collapsed on Sunday morning in the northern province of Hòa Bình, burying two workers.

A number of ethnic people in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai have leased out their land in order to raise funds to build houses or cover other expenses.